Odin production tidbits

As an Irish director, neil jordan has been paying attention to Ireland and Northern Ireland for a long time, but all his films show human nature from the perspective of personal destiny under the historical background. This film is the product of his fantasy when he returned to his hometown during the Hollywood writers' strike. At the same time, he is a director with a distinctive style. His works are based on real life, but often lead to stories with surrealism from a unique perspective, which collide with each other and lead to profound thinking. As the director said, "In my movies, it is often a contest between reality and reality!" .

For example, the beautiful film The Crying Game (1992), which made him famous in the world, expressed the struggle and choice of human nature in the war from a different angle, that is, the communication between an Irish soldier who was tired of killing and a transvestite lover in Britain. The film was a great success. At that time, it won six Oscar nominations, including best director, best leading actor and best supporting actor, and finally won the best original screenplay award. This film is also by far the most successful film in neil jordan. After conquering the critical circle, he began to try to enter the mainstream of Hollywood, and brought Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and other A-list stars to the public with a classic vampire movie "Interview with Vampires at Night" (1994). After directing The Disappointed Brave in 2007, neil jordan returned to Ireland this time, taking the European theme of Mermaid and water sprite as a breakthrough and returning to the magical theme. In fact, he is no stranger to magical themes. Before Interview with Vampires at Night, as early as 1984, he adapted Wolf Clan with the theme of werewolf story based on angela carter's short story Wolf and Wolf Man Alice. The new film Odin is based on the Taobao legend of Odin in Europe. Odin is a water spirit. It is said that she can get her soul by marrying a man and having children for him. In the movie, a fisherman found the mysterious woman Odin in his fishing net, and his paralyzed daughter thought that this woman was the legendary mermaid. The fisherman and Odin soon fell in love, but the arrival of the latter triggered a series of storms in this traditional town.

Neil jordan believes that, to some extent, this film originated from the American writers' strike in 2008. "I went back to Ireland and wrote something personal. I have a picture in my mind of a fisherman dragging a girl out of the water with a fishing net. I don't know if it will be a horror movie ―― whether it will end with her eating his child and drinking his blood. I didn't know what to do next, so I drafted some scenes and realized that this should be a fairy tale. Then I began to read many fairy tales about marine life. "

For this film, in neil jordan's words, it is a fairy tale about adults who choose their own childhood fantasies. This is a fairy tale about a water fairy, but it's not just a fairy tale. Like other movies, it is based on reality. On the beautiful Irish seaside, a group of people live a hard and poor life. In fact, they need fairies to change their lives, not to come to them. In a depressing environment, it seems that only one person is getting rid of such an environment, and that is the fisherman in the film. He met Odin and fell in love with her, showing us a story about love, hope and faith. In terms of actors, neil jordan hired Irish countryman Colin Farrell to play the role of fisherman in the film, which is the first collaboration between them. Odin, a very important role in this film, was given to the Mexican-born Polish actress Erica Bahrida-Kurus. Erica, 26, is a newcomer to Hollywood. She once played a Mexican girl who died tragically in an illegal trade in the American-Mexican Film Trade (2007), which left a deep impression on people. Compared with the two protagonists, the supporting actor Stephen Rea is an old friend of neil jordan. This is their eighth cooperation.

The film was shot by the famous photographer Du Kefeng. When talking about Du Kefeng, neil jordan said, "Du Kefeng, he makes me feel incredible. In his photographs, you can find a mixture of romance and rudeness. On the one hand, you can feel the mysterious beauty brought by the mountains and rivers here. On the other hand, you can feel the rough reality of local towns and the dark and depressing environment created by people themselves. Du Kefeng discovered the photographic language to express both. He is a very, very good photographer. " As for the soundtrack production of this film, Kjartan Sveinsson, the keyboard player of the famous Icelandic back rock band Siegel Roth, was invited. Siegel Ross's music has always been famous for its ethereal mystery, which coincides with the romantic story based on myth in this film and is worth looking forward to. Colin farrell, the hero of this film, and Erica Bachleda-Kurus, the heroine, fell in love because of this film. They had a son, and they named him Henry Tadeusz Farrell.

Erica Bachleda Kurrus is Polish, but she was born in tampico. On her 25th birthday in 2008, she won the title of honorary citizen of tampico.

In the cast, Stephen Rea plays a priest in the film, and he cooperates with director neil jordan most frequently. Before that, he worked with the director in seven films, such as The Crying Game, Interview with Vampires at Night, Michael collins and Breakfast on Pluto. And once won the only Oscar nomination in the actor's career so far-the nomination for best actor in the crying game.

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